15 Ways to Use Gingerbread

The classic holiday dough is good for more than just gingerbread cookies and gingerbread houses: Gingerbread can be used in cakes, puddings, muffins, and even pancakes! Let the delicious smell of gingerbread spices fill your home with these easy recipes for gingerbread any way you like it. Get new ideas for baking and decorating classic sugar cookies too!

Gingerbread Linzertorte

Gingerbread Men

Gingerbread Men

You obviously need a gingerbread-man cutter to make this shape, but any decorative cutter — a star, diamond, heart, or whatever shape you may already have in your kitchen — can be used for this recipe.